Frankie Valli · 2017 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets | Thrillcall Track Artist for New Show Alerts Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio; May 3, 1934) is an American popular singer, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is well known for his unusually powerful falsetto voice. Valli scored 29 Top 40 hits with T... Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio; May 3, 1934) is an American popular singer, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960. He is well known for his unusually powerful falsetto voice. Valli scored 29 Top 40 hits with The Four Seasons, one Top 40 hit under The Four Seasons' alias 'The Wonder Who?', and nine Top 40 hits as a solo artist.

As a member of The Four Seasons, Valli's number one hits included "Sherry" (1962), "Big Girls Don't Cry" (1962), "Walk Like a Man" (1963), "Rag Doll" (1964) and "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" (1975). Valli's recording of the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" reached number two in 1967. "You're Ready Now", a Valli solo recording from 1966, became a surprise hit in Great Britain as part of the Northern soul scene and hit number eleven on the British pop charts in December 1970. As a solo artist, Valli scored number one hits with the songs "My Eyes Adored You" (1974) and "Grease" (1978). Valli, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, and Bob Gaudio—the original members of The Four Seasons—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.

Early life Valli was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio to an Italian family in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey. His father, Anthony Castelluccio, was a barber; his mother, Mary Rinaldi, was a homemaker. He was inspired to take up a singing career at the age of seven after his mother took him to see the young Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater in New York City. His early mentor was singer Texas Jean Valli, from whom he obtained his last name, although it took him some time to settle on the spelling "Valli". Until he could support himself with music, he worked as a barber. As with many other celebrities, Valli's birth year has been called into question. Valli never addressed the issue himself, until the 2007 posting at the Official Frankie Valli Site, sponsored by his current record label, Universal Records. Much of the previous official publicity surrounding his career had used 1937 as the birth year. It is hard to tell when and why this occurred, but inference can be made that by chopping a few years off his age, he would seem more commercially viable to a younger audience.

Other sources, such as the Bear Family Records release, titled "The Four Lovers" (BCD 15424), as well as a 1965 "mug shot", available through The Smoking Gun, all identify his year of birth as 1934. Music career 1950s–1960s Valli began his professional singing career in 1951 with the Variety Trio (Nickie DeVito, Tommy DeVito and Nick Macioci). Valli's desire to sing in public was initially granted when, having heard Valli sing, the group offered him a guest spot when the group performed. In late 1952, the Variety Trio disbanded and Valli, along with Tommy DeVito, became part of the house band at The Strand in New Brunswick, New Jersey. For his part, Valli played bass and sang. He cut his first single, "My Mother's Eyes", in 1953 as "Frankie Valley", a variation on a name he adopted from "Texas" Jean Valli, a favorite female singer.

Around this time, Valli and Tommy DeVito left the house band at The Strand and formed The Variatones with Hank Majewski, Frank Cattone and Billy Thompson. In 1956, as part of an audition backing a female singer, the group impressed New York record man Peter Paul, who had them auditioning at RCA Victor a week later. Renamed The Four Lovers, the group recorded several singles and one album's worth of tracks. They had a minor hit with "You're the Apple of My Eye" in 1956. Nickie DeVito and Hank Majewski left in 1958 to be replaced by Nick Macioci (now Nick Massi) and Hugh Garrity. Massi was in and out of the group, and, occasionally Charles Calello joined on accordion. The group continued to perform until 1959, when Bob Gaudio became a member. After a few more changes, the group was renamed "The 4 Seasons" in 1960. As the lead singer of The Four Seasons, he had a string of hits beginning with the number one hit "Sherry" in 1962.

As a footnote to this period of Frankie's career with The Four Seasons, the group's bassist and vocal arranger Nick Massi was replaced in 1965 by Charlie Calello, the group's instrumental arranger, and, then shortly thereafter, Charlie was replaced by Joseph LaBracio, who went by the pseudonym Joe Long. During the 1960s, Gaudio and his then songwriting partner, producer Bob Crewe (born Stanley Robert Crewe on November 12, 1931), worked with Valli to craft solo recordings with varying degrees of success. This concept of a major recording artist performing solo in opposition to his or her own group performances was rare in the rock/pop world (Buddy Holly and The Crickets were an exception) and may have given tacit approval to other groups and members of other groups to pursue such a path. The potential to dominate the charts with group and solo recordings was great, and Valli, Gaudio and Crewe occasionally rose to the occasion with both great performances and commercial hits.

Valli was the original artist to record the Gaudio-Crewe composition "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", a performance that was copied nearly note for note when recorded by The Walker Brothers, an American group based in England. The Walker Brothers version was a huge success. Valli continued to record solo performances and finally reached major success with the release of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You". Though it only reached number two in the charts, the song itself was widely recorded by many other artists. Valli's debut solo album was a gathering together of various single releases and a few new recordings. Before the release of Valli's second solo album, a single was released in July 1967 with the A-side "I Make A Fool Of Myself," a record that reached number 18. Timeless, Valli's second solo album release was more coherent and Valli took more time in recording it. Timeless contains one Top 40 hit, "To Give (The Reason I Live)." Finally, Valli ended the '60s with a string of recordings that were included in the Valli/Four Seasons album 'Half & Half' or released as various singles.

The only hit to emerge at this time was the recording of "The Girl I'll Never Know (Angels Never Fly This Low)," reaching number 52. 1970s–present "You're Ready Now", a Valli solo recording from 1966, became a surprise hit the UK as part of the Northern soul scene and hit number eleven on the UK pop charts in December 1970. In 1975, Valli's single "My Eyes Adored You" hit number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. In the same year, he also had a number 6 Billboard hit with the disco-laden "Swearin' To God", while a further UK Chart success came with "Fallen Angel" written by Guy Fletcher & Doug Flett and produced by Bob Gaudio; Valli was in the UK charts with this at the same time as The Four Seasons enjoyed a UK hit with "Silver Star" on which Valli did not appear as lead. In 1976, Valli covered the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and World War II.

In 1978, Valli sang the theme song for the film version of the stage play, Grease, a song written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, which became a number 1 hit. He had two further chart successes the following year, "Save Me, Save Me" in November 1978, which entered the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and "Fancy Dancer" in January 1979, which entered the pop charts. Valli suffered from otosclerosis in the 1970s, forcing him to "sing from memory" in the latter part of the decade. Surgery restored most of his hearing by 1980. In 1992, a new Four Seasons album was released entitled Hope and Glory. In 2005, the Broadway musical Jersey Boys opened on the "Great White Way". Besides performances of many of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons hit recordings, the musical features a biographical narrative, told as four separate points of view by each of the members of The Four Seasons (Tommy DeVito, Frankie Valli, Nick Massi, and Bob Gaudio).

The musical dramatizes several real-life incidents from Valli's life, including his estrangement from his daughter Francine, who died in 1980. The show was widely acclaimed, financially successful, and won six Tony awards. The musical has touring companies around the world, as well as a version at Paris Las Vegas. In October 2007, Valli released Romancing the 60s, an album containing covers of his favorite songs from the 1960s, two of which he had previously recorded. Those songs were "Sunny" and "Any Day Now". In October 2010, a duet version of "The Biggest Part of Me" by Frankie Valli and Juice Newton was released on Newton's album Duets: Friends & Memories. In October 2012, Valli made his Broadway debut with a week-long concert engagement at the Broadway Theatre in New York starting October 19. Acting career Valli made several appearances in Seasons 5 and 6 of the HBO series The Sopranos as mobster Rusty Millio (once referred to as "The Mayor of Munchkin Land").

Also, his and the Four Seasons' music is heard in other Sopranos episodes, especially in the one eponymously titled "Big Girls Don't Cry". Valli also made a special guest appearance (as himself) during Season 8 of Full House, on the episode "DJ's Choice". Philanthropic activities Valli has been a supporter of heritage-related causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2006, he received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala. In 2008, NIAF presented a scholarship in his name to an Italian American music student during the Foundation's East Coast Gala. In May 2012, Valli received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his commitment to many humanitarian causes. Discography Official Frankie Valli Site Romancing the 60s - first studio release in 15 years Frankie Valli Romancing the 60´s Oh, what a story. Frankie Valli, who came to fame in 1962 as the lead singer of the Four Seasons, is hotter than ever in the 21st century.

Thanks to the volcanic success of the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys, which chronicles the life and times of Frankie and his legendary group, such classic songs as ï¿½Big Girls Donï¿½t Cry,ï¿½ ï¿½Walk Like a Man,ï¿½ ï¿½Rag Doll,ï¿½ and ï¿½Canï¿½t Take My Eyes Off Youï¿½ are all the rage all over again. As the play enters its third sold-out year on Broadway, and two touring companies of Jersey Boys travel around the U.S., the real Frankie Valli is packing concert halls coast to coast, from the Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, to L.A.ï¿½s Kodak Theater, home of the Academy Awards. Now Frankie salutes the decade that made him a star with his first new studio album in 15 years. In Romancing The ï¿½60s, to be released October 2, he puts his own stamp on some of his favorite ï¿½60s songs, the ones he always wanted to record but somehow got away.

Produced by Bob Gaudio, an original member of the Four Seasons and Frankieï¿½s long-time partner, the set includes unforgettable new versions of such gems as ï¿½Spanish Harlem,ï¿½ ï¿½Call Meï¿½ and ï¿½Take Good Care of My Baby.ï¿½ And the album features a delightful guest appearance by the four young stars of Jersey Boys, providing background vocals forï¿½what else?ï¿½ï¿½On Broadway.ï¿½ Launched with perfect timing amid Jersey Boy-mania, Romancing The ï¿½60s is the most eagerly anticipated album of Frankie Valliï¿½s 54-year recording career. But please donï¿½t say that Frankie is back. The truth is, he never went away. Sure, the majority of the 71 chart hits of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (including 40 in the Top 40, 19 in the Top 10 and eight No. 1ï¿½s) came during the 1960s, but the music didnï¿½t just disappear.

He has toured almost continuously since 1962, and his songs have been omnipresent in such movies as The Deer Hunter, Dirty Dancing, Mrs. Doubtfire, Conspiracy Theory and The Wanderers. As many as 200 artists have done cover versions of Frankieï¿½s ï¿½Canï¿½t Take My Eyes Off You,ï¿½ from Nancy Wilsonï¿½s jazz treatment to Lauryn Hillï¿½s hip-hop makeover. Frankie and the Seasons have influenced many other great recording artists. That was acknowledged in dozens of recent tributes collected for Jersey Beat, the newly released Four Seasons boxed set. For example, from Barry Gibb: ï¿½Frankie Valli to me has become one of the hallmark voices of our generation.

From the deepest emotions of his real voice to the power of his falsetto, he created a style that we all still strive to emulate.ï¿½ From Billy Joel: ï¿½I wrote ï¿½Uptown Girlï¿½ as the flip side to the story of ï¿½Rag Doll.ï¿½ I always loved that record.ï¿½ And from Brian Wilson: ï¿½In the early ï¿½60s the Four Seasons were my favorite group. I thought they were fantastic. The voice blend was fantastic. The competition helped me to get cracking. It inspired me, because they made good music. I went to the piano thinking I could top their music.ï¿½ Thereï¿½s something about Frankieï¿½s music that makes young people of every generation want to get up and dance. Amid the disco era, the Seasons hit it big with ï¿½Who Loves You,ï¿½ which reached No 3 in 1975, and ï¿½December 1963 (Oh, What a Night), a No. 1 record in 1976.

On the other side of the Atlantic, ï¿½Youï¿½re Ready Nowï¿½ and ï¿½The Night,ï¿½ which didnï¿½t do anything in the U.S., emerged from dance clubs in the north of England to become huge hits in Europe. Two decades later, in 1994, a dance club remix of ï¿½December 1963ï¿½ climbed to No. 14 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2000, a French-language rap version of ï¿½December 1963ï¿½ went to No. 1 in Paris. And last Julyï¿½yes, July of 2007ï¿½a remix of the Four Seasonsï¿½ 1967 hit ï¿½Begginï¿½ ï¿½ became the No. 1 dance record in Britain. This was eight months in advance of the scheduled March 2008 opening of Jersey Boys in London. Case closed: Frankie never went away.

Anyone who forgot about Frankie apparently never watched one of the most popular and critically acclaimed TV series in history: The Sopranos. The Seasonsï¿½ music could be heard in the show or sometimes over the credits. The characters often spouted their admiration for ï¿½Frankie Valli.ï¿½ Tony Soprano bragged that he used the same florist as Frankie. And Frankie himself, in an acting role, guest-starred in Seasons 5 and 6 of The Sopranos as mobster Rusty Millioï¿½until Rustyï¿½s unfortunate demise in a hail of bullets. Considering Frankieï¿½s background, itï¿½s a wonder he didnï¿½t end up like Rusty rather than in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born Francis Castelluccio on May 3, 1934, he grew up in a public housing projectï¿½Stephen Crane Villageï¿½on the tough streets of Newark, New Jersey.

As the character of Tommy DeVito, Frankieï¿½s friend and fellow Four Season, says in Jersey Boys: ï¿½If youï¿½re from my neighborhood, you got three ways out: You could join the army. You could get mobbed up. Orï¿½you could become a star.ï¿½ At an early age, Frankie chose Door No. 3. When he was seven, his mother took him to New York Cityï¿½s Paramount Theater to see Frank Sinatra. ï¿½I saw Sinatra coming out on stage,ï¿½ Frankie recalls, ï¿½and the way he was lit up, it was like he had an aura around him. I decided then and there thatï¿½s what I was going to doï¿½be a successful singer.ï¿½ Thatï¿½s not easy in the best of circumstances, and hanging out in Newark was certainly not the best of circumstances. Several of Frankieï¿½s friends did stints in jail for small-time robberies, including two buddies, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi, who would later become original members of the Four Seasons.

If you didnï¿½t watch out, Frankie says, ï¿½you could wind up in the trunk of a car.ï¿½ Fortunately, Frankieï¿½s friends discovered that making music was a good way to stay out of jail and car trunks. In the early ï¿½50s, DeVito headed a group called the Variety Trio, and one night he invited young Frankie on stage to sing ï¿½I Canï¿½t Give You Anything But Love.ï¿½ Soon, Frankie was known around the neighborhood for having the voice of an angel. In 1953, he caught the eye of music publisher Paul Kapp, who helped Frankie make his first record, ï¿½My Motherï¿½s Eyes,ï¿½ on the Corona label. Realizing that Castelluccio was ï¿½a little long for a marqueeï¿½ (as his girlfriend kids him in Jersey Boys), he rechristened himself Frankie Valley (later Italianized to Valli), borrowing the name from friend and fellow performer Texas Jean Valley. ï¿½My Motherï¿½s Eyesï¿½ made a little splash locally but sank without a trace outside Newark.

A bit of national attention didnï¿½t come until 1956, when Frankie was in a group called the Four Lovers with Tommy, his brother Nick DeVito and Hank Majewski. They had a minor hit with ï¿½Youï¿½re the Apple of My Eyeï¿½ by Otis Blackwell, who also penned ï¿½Donï¿½t Be Cruelï¿½ for Elvis Presley. The Four Lovers also cut an album called Joyride and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. But even this modest success proved to be short-lived, and Frankie kept open his other main career pathï¿½cutting hair. It wasnï¿½t until 1959 that the Lovers, now numbering three (Frankie, Tommy and Nick Massi) started catching some big breaks. First, a friend named Joe Pesci (yes, the same Joe Pesci who would go on, improbably, to become an Oscar-winning actor) introduced the Lovers to Bob Gaudio, a piano-playing, song-writing prodigy and former member of the Royal Teens.

He had co-written the monster hit ï¿½Short Shorts,ï¿½ but then his Teens had returned to obscurity. After taking in Gaudio, the Lovers, now Four again, started working with Bob Crewe, a brilliant lyricist and producer with a golden ear (his songwriting credits already included ï¿½Silhouettesï¿½ for the Rays). Meanwhile, the Lovers flunked an audition to play at the cocktail lounge of a bowling alley in Union, N.J., but they decided the loungeï¿½s name would make a classy moniker for a singing group: The Four Seasons. For two years the Four Seasons sang background for Creweï¿½s other acts while working on a style of their own. Finally, in 1962, Gaudio came up with a song that made full use of Frankieï¿½s remarkable range, from baritone to falsetto. When the unknown Seasons sang ï¿½Sherryï¿½ on American Bandstand, they suddenly became the hottest band in the land, and after nine years as a recording artist, Frankie Valli became an ï¿½overnightï¿½ sensation with a No. 1 record.

The sound of ï¿½Sherryï¿½ was unlike anything else on the airwaves. ï¿½Many R&B groups had used falsetto as part of their background harmonies,ï¿½ explains Frankie, ï¿½but we were different because we put the falsetto out front and made it the lead.ï¿½ Determined not to be a one-hit wonder again, Gaudio collaborated with Crewe, and the duo quickly composed two more No 1 hits for the Seasons: ï¿½Big Girls Donï¿½t Cryï¿½ and ï¿½Walk Like a Man.ï¿½ Gaudio and Crewe went on to become one of the most successful song-writing teams in pop-music history. Around the same time, Gaudio also formed a special partnership with Valli. With a handshake, Bob agreed to give Frankie half of everything Bob earned as a writer and producer, and Frankie agreed to give Bob half of Frankieï¿½s earnings from performances outside the group. That partnership remains in force 45 years later, still sealed only with a handshake.

The fateful year of 1964 brought the British invasion, but that didnï¿½t stall the Four Seasons. With the Gaudio-Crewe engine firing on all cylinders, the group released one smash after another: ï¿½Dawn (Go Away),ï¿½ ï¿½Ronnie,ï¿½ ï¿½Rag Doll,ï¿½ ï¿½Save It For Me,ï¿½ ï¿½Big Man in Townï¿½ and, in early 1965, ï¿½Bye Bye Baby (Baby, Goodbye).ï¿½ From late 1965 to 1967, Gaudio and Crewe began working on songs that Frankie could sing soloï¿½adult-oriented songs that didnï¿½t rely on his famous falsetto.

Songwriting for the group was largely turned over to the team of Denny Randell and Sandy Linzer, who produced three straight giant hits: ï¿½Letï¿½s Hang On,ï¿½ ï¿½Working My Way Back to Youï¿½ and ï¿½Opus 17 (Donï¿½t You Worry ï¿½Bout Me).ï¿½ The Seasons also cracked the Top 10 with a gorgeous reinvention of the old Cole Porter standard ï¿½Iï¿½ve Got You Under My Skin.ï¿½ Gaudioï¿½s main contribution to the group during this period was ï¿½Begginï¿½,ï¿½ written with Peggy Farina of the Angels. Back in the studio, Gaudio and Crewe were still puzzling over songs that could give Frankie his own identity. After several unsuccessful attempts, they finally fashioned a signature song that would make Frankie a solo superstar: ï¿½Canï¿½t Take My Eyes Off You.ï¿½ Released in 1967, it went to No. 2 in Billboard and No. 1 in Cashbox.

With the popularity of the original record and all the cover versions, ï¿½Canï¿½t Take My Eyes Off Youï¿½ has become one of the top ten most-played songs in the history of BMI, one of the two major companies that collect royalties for songwriters. After ï¿½Canï¿½t Take My Eyes Off Youï¿½ came two more Top 40 solo hits: ï¿½I Make a Fool of Myselfï¿½ and ï¿½To Give (the Reason I Live).ï¿½ But unlike many lead singers who achieve solo success, leave their groups and never look back, Frankie stayed with the Four Seasons, producing hits in two parallel careers. While Frankie flourished solo, the Four Seasons stayed in the Top 40 with ï¿½Cï¿½mon Marianne,ï¿½ ï¿½Watch the Flowers Growï¿½ and a remake of ï¿½Will You Love Me Tomorrow.ï¿½ In the early 1970ï¿½s the Seasons finally had a cold spell. Massi and DeVito had left the group, and the lineup of players kept changing.

But while Gaudio stopped touring with the group, he continued to write songs, and Frankie Valli remained one of the biggest names in the music business. In 1975 Frankie came roaring back with ï¿½My Eyes Adored You,ï¿½ which reached No. 1, ï¿½Swearinï¿½ to Godï¿½ and a cover of ï¿½Our Day Will Come.ï¿½ That burst of success spurred Gaudio to put together a new Four Seasons, led by Frankie of course. With his future wife Judy Parker, Gaudio wrote ï¿½Who Loves Youï¿½ and ï¿½December 1963 (Oh, What a Night),ï¿½ two of the biggest hits in the Seasonsï¿½ history. The new hot streak culminated in 1978, when Frankieï¿½s solo performance of ï¿½Grease,ï¿½ featured not once but twice in the movie soundtrack, reached the inevitable No. 1 ranking in Billboard.

From 1962 to 1978, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons sold more than 100 million records, even before the invention of the compact disc prompted Seasons collectors to buy the hits all over again. For decades after their heyday, Frankie and the Seasons continued to be a top concert draw, and radio constantly played their classics, not to mention the new remixes that kept popping up on the charts. In 1990 Frankie and the other original Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, only five years after the Hall opened for business. But who could imagine that the first 45 years would be only the beginningï¿½that Frankie Valli would celebrate 2007 with a new album and a heavy sold-out concert schedule? No other pop star has ever received the kind of new lease on life that Jersey Boys has given Frankie Valli. In addition to the three current productions of Jersey Boys, plans have been laid to take the play to London, Las Vegas and Toronto for open-ended runs.

And producers are clamoring to bring the musical to Australia, Singapore, China and even Dubaiï¿½yes, the Dubai thatï¿½s part of the United Arab Emirates. Every major Hollywood studio has asked about making a Jersey Boys movie. For as far into the future as anyone can see, Jersey Boys will introduce the music of Frankie Valli to new generations. Romancing The ï¿½60s is a most welcome and long-awaited addition to that legacy. The man himself shows no signs of slowing down. As his character says at the end of Jersey Boys: ï¿½Like that bunny on TV with the battery, I just keep going and going and going.ï¿½ For as long as he wants to sing, people will want to listen. The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons on Apple Music 20 Songs Album Review The Four Seasons are often overlooked when lists of important bands of the 1960s are made. That really shouldn't be the case.

With Frankie Valli's amazing bray of a voice backed by the solid harmonies of the other Three Seasons singing simple, powerful songs with great hooks and lots of musical surprises, they were really quite special. And Bob Crewe knew how to produce records that sounded great on car radios: the drums snap, the guitars crunch, and the voices jump out of the mix. The Four Seasons had a lot of really big hit songs: "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Dawn (Go Away)," and "Working My Way Back to You." This compilation rounds up all their chart smashes from their original incarnation in the 1960s plus two tracks ("Who Loves You" and the disco-fied "December, 1963 [Oh, What a Night]") from the mid-'70s. One could question the inclusion of solo tracks by Frankie Valli on a Four Seasons compilation. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "My Eyes Adored You," "Swearin' to God," and "Grease" are all fine songs and hits as well, but sound out of place, as his solo style is nothing like the classic Four Seasons sound. It seems like a disservice to the group.

Surely Rhino could have found a few more Four Seasons tunes to round out the disc — maybe a song from their weird concept album, The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette, or the should-have-been-a-smash "Silence Is Golden." Ignoring all that, this is still the best single-disc Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons compilation on the market (since Rhino has deleted their superior Anthology, which had more tracks and only one Frankie Valli solo number) and could easily be recommended to the casual fan. Customer Reviews by Alpha pest Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons with songs like "Walk Like a Man", "Dawn" and "Candy Girl", and other pop and R&B musicians of their time in the early 1960's inspired such greats as The Beatles and The Supremes. Of course, "Sherry" from will always be a kitch fave. Not all the songs in this collection stand the test of time, but I'm glad this material is available to be enjoyed as a part of pop history. Excellent by Namdlefhtes Jersey Boys inspired me to listen to these guys, and I'm so glad I did.

Favourites are Can't Take my Eyes Off of You and My Eyes Adored You. Biography Genre: Pop Roughly speaking, "Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons" is the billing given to the Four Seasons after the group's 1960s heyday, as lead singer Valli became more prominent and personnel changes began to reduce the others to his backup band. In practice, the two billings can be interchangeable; many compilations containing the group's '60s hits as well as Valli solo recordings are credited to Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons as well. A New Jersey-based vocal quartet that was also nearly a self-contained... Top Albums and Songs by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 1. My Eyes Adored You Jersey Boys Movie - YouTube My Eyes Adored You Jersey Boys Movie Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Nov 30, 2014 Like ✔ Comment ✔ Share ✔ Subscribe ✔ Life as a Playlist ✰ For the film based on the musical, see Jersey Boys (film) Jersey Boys The August Wilson Theatre showing Jersey Boys Music Bob Gaudio Basis The Four Seasons songs Productions 2005 Broadway Awards Tony Award for Best Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and eventual break-up of the 1960s rock 'n roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons", each narrated by a different member of the band who gives his own perspective on its history and music. Songs include "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Sherry", "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)", "My Eyes Adored You", "Stay", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Working My Way Back to You" and "Rag Doll", among others.

The title refers to the fact that the members of The Four Seasons are from New Jersey. The musical opened on Broadway in 2005 and has since had two North American National Tours and productions in London's West End, Las Vegas, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne and other Australian cities, Singapore, South Africa, The Netherlands and elsewhere. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

"Ces soirées-là (Oh What a Night) - Paris, 2000" – French Rap Star Yannick and Backup Group "Silhouettes" – Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, Nick DeVito and Frankie Valli "You're the Apple of My Eye" – Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Nick DeVito "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" – Frankie Valli "Earth Angel" – Tommy DeVito and Full Company "A Sunday Kind of Love" – Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Nick's Date "My Mother's Eyes" – Frankie Valli "I Go Ape" – The Four Lovers "(Who Wears) Short Shorts" – The Royal Teens "I'm in the Mood for Love" / "Moody's Mood for Love" – Frankie Valli "Cry for Me" – Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi "An Angel Cried" – Hal Miller and The Rays "I Still Care" – Miss Frankie Nolan and The Romans "Trance" – Billy Dixon and The Topix "Sherry" – The Four Seasons "Big Girls Don't Cry" – The Four Seasons "Walk Like a

 Man" – The Four Seasons "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" – Bob Gaudio and Full Company "My Boyfriend's Back" – The Angels "My Eyes Adored You" – Frankie Valli, Mary Delgado and The Four Seasons "Dawn (Go Away)" – The Four Seasons "Walk Like a Man" (reprise) – Full Company Category Walk Like A Man Jersey Boys Movie - YouTube Walk Like A Man Jersey Boys Movie Want to watch this again later?

Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 30, 2014 Like ✔ Comment ✔ Share ✔ Subscribe ✔ Life as a Playlist ✰ For the film based on the musical, see Jersey Boys (film) Jersey Boys The August Wilson Theatre showing Jersey Boys Music Bob Gaudio Basis The Four Seasons songs Productions 2005 Broadway Awards Tony Award for Best Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and eventual break-up of the 1960s rock 'n roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons", each narrated by a different member of the band who gives his own perspective on its history and music.

Songs include "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Sherry", "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)", "My Eyes Adored You", "Stay", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Working My Way Back to You" and "Rag Doll", among others. The title refers to the fact that the members of The Four Seasons are from New Jersey. The musical opened on Broadway in 2005 and has since had two North American National Tours and productions in London's West End, Las Vegas, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne and other Australian cities, Singapore, South Africa, The Netherlands and elsewhere. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.

"Ces soirées-là (Oh What a Night) - Paris, 2000" – French Rap Star Yannick and Backup Group "Silhouettes" – Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, Nick DeVito and Frankie Valli "You're the Apple of My Eye" – Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Nick DeVito "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" – Frankie Valli "Earth Angel" – Tommy DeVito and Full Company "A Sunday Kind of Love" – Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Nick's Date "My Mother's Eyes" – Frankie Valli "I Go Ape" – The Four Lovers "(Who Wears) Short Shorts" – The Royal Teens "I'm in the Mood for Love" / "Moody's Mood for Love" – Frankie Valli "Cry for Me" – Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi "An Angel Cried" – Hal Miller and The Rays "I Still Care" – Miss Frankie Nolan and The Romans "Trance" – Billy Dixon and The Topix "Sherry" – The Four Seasons "Big Girls Don't Cry" – The Four Seasons "Walk Like a

 Man" – The Four Seasons "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" – Bob Gaudio and Full Company "My Boyfriend's Back" – The Angels "My Eyes Adored You" – Frankie Valli, Mary Delgado and The Four Seasons "Dawn (Go Away)" – The Four Seasons "Walk Like a Man" (reprise) – Full Company Category Frankie Valli Q&A: Looking Back at 50 Years of The Four Seasons | Billboard Frankie Valli Q&A: Looking Back at 50 Years of The Four Seasons Courtesy of Dean Egnater Frankie Valli There is a scene in the hit Broadway musical "Jersey Boys" that represents the sustained success of Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio and their group, the Four Seasons, for more than 50 years.

It portrays a pact made by Valli, the singer, and Gaudio, a founding performer who soon stepped offstage to focus on songwriting for Valli and the group. This Article First Appeared in Billboard Magazine -- Click Here to Buy This Issue • Subscribe • Buy a Copy • Billboard on iPad Valli and Gaudio realize their success is so intertwined, their human harmony so true, that they decide to be partners in each other's careers and share the revenue that each generated for the rest of their lives. And, in the manner of two guys raised in the housing projects of Newark, N.J., during the Great Depression, they seal the deal with nothing more, and nothing less, than a handshake. The scene makes for great theater. It also happens to be true. The deal contained an escape clause-Valli and Gaudio could bow out of the deal at any time simply by saying so. "I grew up in the projects, and we didn't know about giving lawyers contracts," Valli says. "You gave your word to somebody, and that was good enough.

I still feel very strongly that way, although it's a very, very difficult thing to do nowadays." It's also difficult for an individual and group to sustain the kind of success Valli and the Four Seasons have had since the act debuted in 1962 with "Sherry," which shot to No. 1 immediately after Dick Clark introduced it on "American Bandstand." The distinctive sound was both intensely rhythmic (Valli says the earliest hits were "like chants"), with emphatic drum introductions and foot stomps, and melodically innovative thanks to Gaudio's brilliance. The lyrics, by multifaceted producer/entrepreneur Bob Crewe, made most of the Four Seasons' hits aspirational story songs, concise and evocative as the tunes written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. Front, center and top was Valli's voice, crowned with the kind of falsetto rarely heard before or since in pop music. It was a street fighter's falsetto, a cocky, muscular sound that could go from hope to heartbreak in a New Jersey minute. It was a sound as distinctly regional as California's Beach Boys-and just as universal.

It's no coincidence that the Beach Boys and the Four Seasons, along with Motown and Memphis soul, were among the few American acts to remain entrenched on the charts during the full run of the Beatles and the British Invasion. After a largely unproductive move from Phillips to Motown's Mowest subsidiary, Valli and the Four Seasons resurfaced at the top of the charts in 1975, with "My Eyes Adored You" and "Swearin' to God" on Private Stock, "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" on Warner/Curb. "Jersey Boys," the story of the Four Seasons as told by each member, won four Tony Awards including best musical after its premiere in 2005 at Broadway's August Wilson Theater, where it is still going strong. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Four Seasons, Valli met with Billboard for an expansive conversation at a coffee shop in Manhattan. How has "Jersey Boys" affected your touring and your audience? It's created a new awareness, especially with younger people. A lot of groups stayed in the same bag. We never did that.

The first three records we did-"Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man"-were all self-contained. [Almost all the instruments and singing were performed by the band.] Then, depending on the song, Gaudio and Crewe were writing so many songs in those days, they weren't trying to follow a pattern. If they felt a song required a bigger orchestra, we used a bigger orchestra. Wall of Four Seasons The Four Seasons were always thought of as a singles band. It wasn't until "Working My Way Back to You" in early 1966 that you had songs and sounds with a kind of FM radio flow. There's another album, [1969's] "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette," which was a total departure from doing pop music, but never got any acceptance. It was done like a newspaper; all the songs were articles. It had a sports section, comics, horoscopes ... Shortly after that, Jethro Tull did something exactly like that [in 1972 with "Thick As a Brick"]. Rolling Stone said that if anybody else had done "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette," it would have been a smash album.

It was different. Some of the subject matter [music by Gaudio with lyrics by Greenwich Village folk favorite Jake Holmes] dealt with war, racial tensions and other things going on at the time. We loved it. It was completely different. But we did what we really wanted to do, and if it was a hit, it was a hit. We had a lot of resistance from record companies. That's why we left Phillips Records. They wanted us to stay in a pop place. We left right after The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. We didn't want to be locked in to anything. That would include the version of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," credited to the Wonder Who?, which peaked at No. 12 on the Hot 100, right around the time "Rag Doll" reached No. 3, near the end of 1965. It did create a lot of confusion. We had an album, six Bacharach-David songs on one side and six Dylan songs on the other [The 4 Seasons Sing Burt Bacharach ... Hal David ... and Bob Dylan].

In the studio, I started to clown around with "Don't Think Twice." In reality, it was an impression of a very famous black singer, Rose Murphy. She did "I Can't Give You Anything but Love." We played it for a disc jockey in Atlantic City [N.J.], and he said, "Please give it to me. I just want to play it. I won't tell anybody who it is. I'll run a contest." He actually broke it. When the record company found out, they were really pissed. They said, "Now we have to put it out ... But we already have a Four Seasons song out, and this will kill it. So we'll say it's the Wonder Who?" On the other hand, you did have your first solo hit with Cole Porter's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in June 1967, which "stalled" at No. 2 for two weeks, behind Aretha Franklin's "Respect." I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or "Sherry," I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

I didn't go to any professional school to learn how to sing. I bought people's records, listened to them, tried to do what the singer did by imitating them, as close as I could possibly get. We cover every kind of music. That's important for anybody. We can do anything from working with a four- or five-piece band to working with a symphony orchestra. You even flourished during the disco era. How did you get to sing the title song from "Grease"? Barry Gibb called and said, "I wrote a song. I think it's for you. It's going to be the title song for this motion picture." My manager at the time was Allan Carr, who was partners in "Grease" with Robert Stigwood. He called and said, "What do you want to do? Do you want to be in the movie? Or sing the title song?" Well, I had already heard the title song, and I loved it. I called [famed arranger] Don Costa up and told him to come over right away and hear this song.

He said, "If you don't record this song, you're crazy." So I said, "What's the song if I want to be in the movie?" And they said "Beauty School Dropout." It was done by Frankie Avalon. It never became a hit, but he made a lot of money from it being on the soundtrack. But "Grease" was one of the biggest records I ever had in my career. Was there ever a time when you weren't as busy as you wanted to be? There were a lot of frustrating periods in my life. In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis-hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear. [Renowned Los Angeles ear specialist] Dr. Victor Goodhill did the surgery and it saved my life. He went to the bone bank at UCLA and made me a new stapes bone for each ear. He brought my hearing from about 35% in one ear to about 98%, and a year later operated on the other ear and brought it up to 87%. That was a moment of truth for me.

Of course, losing a kid was a very, very tough experience. [Valli's stepdaughter, Celia, died in an accident, and his daughter, Francine, reportedly died from a drug overdose, both in 1980.] It's not something you ever, ever get over. It's just not supposed to be that way. You're on the road, and you're involved with the upcoming "Jersey Boys" movie, to be directed by Clint Eastwood. Why work so hard? I think [back on] all of the things I did as a kid, how hard it was getting into the business. I did everything in my power ... I worked construction. I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I'd come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful. It wasn't easy, but I was really determined. Just before "Sherry," I thought that was it.

I said to myself, "If this doesn't happen, I don't know what I'm going to do." I was at that crossroads of life. You have to really be in something 100%. Because if you're not, the day you're not there may be the day it was important for you to be there, so that it could happen. Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

Question: Which musical features the songs 'Sherry', 'My Eyes Adored You' and 'Walk Like A Man'?
Answer: 'JERSEY BOYS'